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May 4, 2024 46 mins

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🔴 Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2zVQDLO - Spending 25 years in prison can have a profound effect on one's life. For the average person in society, time is what is cherished most. Yet, for one that's incarcerated, time is the one thing you have an abundance of, and it's how you spend that time that matters most. David O'Neill is our guest today. He did spend 25 years being incarcerated. He's the author of the new best-selling book, "Forged in Hellfire."

On this episode of American Real, Roger asks David about how he came up with the concept of getting his book written. "I spent a lot of years behind bars, and I had many guys tell me that my life was like a movie," David says. "Many of these guys had actually been there with me through these events that I had experienced, and they told me for years, 'you have to write this down, people need to see this.' For the last 2 years of my incarceration, I wrote. And I kept many of my journals throughout my incarceration, so I had books to go off, I had journals to go off of and use those as a platform to write my book."

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David's Book: https://a.co/d/3kQCIjQ - Roger L. Brooks is the founder and host of American Real and American Real Publishing Company. If you'd like to learn more about getting your book published or becoming a bestselling author, schedule a call with a member of Roger's team here ➡️ https://www.officialrogerbrooks.com/book - Get Roger's latest book, "The Power of Being Rich: 10 Essential Steps to Manifest What You Already Have" by clicking on this link: https://amzn.to/2TN0sFr - Follow Roger on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerlbrooks/

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